A-Z
- ‘Raising the bar for others’- my journey to the bar’.
- Access and progression: My journey to the Bar
- Edward Henry KC of Mountford Chambers – Available to provide expert legal commentary on topics and issues of the day.
- Investment urgently needed to ensure future of criminal defence profession
- Judges, Lawyers and the Litigant in Person
- “A timely reminder: Risk Identification and Mitigation”
- “A Whole Life Order on Each and Every Offence”: The Unprecedented Implication of Lucy Letby’s Whole Life Orders
- “Disability is not a barrier to success” – supporting neurodiversity in law at the University of Hertfordshire
- “I cannot reveal my sources”: R (LXP) v Central Criminal Court [2023] EWHC 2824 (Admin)
- “To boldly go” – Free speech today in the US supreme court
- “You’ll never make it as a Barrister…”
- 100 Years of Female Barristers at the Bar
- 3- Silk solutions from St Johns Building for arbitration
- 46% of Brits Don’t Understand Legal Aid or how to get Support
- 4PB welcomes Rachael Kelsey
- 5 Things to do when Representing Vulnerable Clients
- A Double-Edged Sword: The Transactional Nature of Plea Bargains
- A joust with HMRC and the application of BTI v Sequana in the Trusts context
- A positive professional identity: Maximising your legal career & well-being
- A steady and sure hand after some turbulence!
- Addressing the challenges of financial management in chambers
- AI the EU and US – Part 2-The Deep Fake
- AI, the EU and US
- All bark no bite: will a new offence reduce companion animal abduction?
- An introduction to the illegal migration bill
- Animal law: Past, present, and possible future
- Are legal qualifications really worth the time and money?
- As with most things, the cheapest option is not always the best
- Assistance animals, access, and ableism
- Bar Council announces new contextual recruitment tool to boost social mobility at the Bar
- Bar Council calls on Peers to reject deeply flawed Illegal Migration Bill
- Bar Council comment on Cilex lawyers becoming judges
- Bar Council commits to address inappropriate behaviour at the Bar
- Bar Council congratulates Alex Chalk as new Lord Chancellor
- Bar Council media briefing: MoJ statistics
- Bar Council responds to latest judicial diversity data
- Bar training students: additional re-sits pilot at BPP
- Barbara Mills KC elected as Bar Council Vice Chair for 2024
- Barrister Link Shortlisted for ‘Excellence in Innovation’ at East Midlands Chamber Business Awards
- Barristers can change the world – but as lawyers not “activists”
- Barristers support Black History Month with historic play
- Barristers’ chambers secures private equity investment from LDC . Technology and flexibility, an advantage for the “21st century Bar”
- Being a Barrister: New Beginnings
- BHD and the Bar: Zero Compromise to Zero Tolerance
- Breaking the bias: What a real barrister looks like
- BSB announces minimum pupillage award from 1 January 2024
- BSB appoints new Vice-Chair of Independent Decision-making Body
- BSB launches a public consultation on amending the definition of academic legal training
- BSB proposes amendments to widen its powers to protect the public
- BSB publishes its Annual Report for 2022-23
- BSB publishes its annual report on diversity at the Bar
- BSB publishes new guidance on barristers’ conduct in non-professional life and on social media
- BSB Publishes the Independent Decision-making Body Annual Report 2022/23
- BSB survey of sanctions compliance at the Commercial Bar finds good levels of compliance but room for improvement in some areas
- Building a system to protect students from sexual harm
- Bullying and Respect at Work
- Can sentencing for police officer offenders be improved?
- Can’t sell – won’t sell. Why ‘selling’ shouldn’t be a dirty word
- Cause of Death: Procedure, Inquests and Implications
- Chair of the Bar calls for change to timing of Call in future-gazing speech
- Chambers encouraged to analyse earnings data to understand disparities and ensure equal access to work
- Children in custody – Envisioning a way out.
- Civil Partnerships: Law Reform
- Cognitive Bias: Forensic Science
- Complaint handling – the Legal Ombudsman’s perspective
- Computer Evidence: presume nothing, trust no software or data, engage an expert. Costly? Just look at the cost if you don’t.
- Could digital technology transform your chambers?
- Court queues leave bereaved families in ‘limbo’, lawyer warns
- Cross-examination report calls for improvements in technology and training to support vulnerable witnesses
- Cross-Examination: In search of a New Normal
- Culture shift needed to deliver court reform programme – Bar Council
- Cyber Law: Language Matters
- Defending private prosecutions
- Delays to surrogacy law reform creating risk for babies
- Director General, Mark Neale, declares the need for independent regulation of the Bar
- Diversity at the Bar – Social Mobility
- Do Human Rights survive in time of national crisis or war? A Cautionary Tale
- Drama in the courtroom: Defending the rights of children diagnosed with autis
- EAPs struggling to meet mental health needs of employees – a response to the BBC report
- Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022
- Eight points to consider when appointing a forensic accountant as an expert witness
- Enhancing Video Evidence: a Scientific Path Towards the Truth
- Ensuring you have a successful para legal business
- ESG Leases: Brave new world or false dawn?
- Ethics and access: striking the right balance
- EU legislation set to further tighten regulations on use of communications data
- Evidence from computers – the unreliable legal presumption that, without more, it can be relied upon
- Exchange Chambers expands mentoring scheme across the North
- Exchange Chambers sees significant growth to the Family Team in Manchester
- FA’s inquiry into race allegations: kicking discrimination out of the field
- Failure to prevent fraud – a new criminal offence for big business
- Family Law: Early Resolution, Out of Court Settlement and Delay in Family Proceedings
- Fixed recoverable costs: Bar Council insists on pay for work done
- Fraud in Science: the Bigger Picture
- From Medicine to the Law: a reasonable course of action?
- Fundamental Dishonesty – Recent decisions and practical steps for practitioners
- Funding hike sees CILEX and solicitor apprenticeships receive equal funding
- Getting your chambers fit for the future
- Hadley v Przybylo – Court of Appeal judgment handed down – significant win for claimants
- Half of middle-aged Brits could be putting their loved ones at risk
- Have we really reformed animal welfare post-Brexit?
- How do we create change in criminal justice?
- How the Legal Profession has Become a Complex Legal Ecosystem
- How to sharpen your presentation skills
- Improving Access to Justice? What the Changes to Cost Capping in Planning and Environmental Claims Really Mean?
- Insolvency specialist Graham Sellers joins Exchange Chambers
- Is independent lawyering under siege?
- Is the public empowered to seek justice when needed?
- Is your expert an expert?
- Junior barrister says more ‘Understanding’ is needed to retain females at the Bar
- Keeping court bundles safe from the dark web
- Kids, Court and Caffeine…How to survive having a baby at the Bar
- Kings Chambers welcomes new member
- Lasting power of attorney risks – is there a resolution?
- Leading barristers chambers announces team restructure
- Legal community gravely concerned: joint statement from the Bar Council and Law Society
- Legal Platforms: An opportunity for the Bar
- Looking Beyond The Picture: How To Trust Video Evidence
- Louis Browne KC acts for Wrexham Borough Council under Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014
- Louis Browne KC appears in criminal injuries compensation case examining life expectancy
- Making mental health a global priority in the legal profession
- Matt Hutchings KC on a year of moonlighting as a climate activist while practising as a lawyer
- Medicine and the law – where criminal and civil law overlap
- Mentoring: how a handful of hours a year can help transform fair access to the Bar
- Ministry of Justice to open up more senior judicial roles to CILEX Lawyers
- Modern Day Slavery: Where are we now?
- Modern Setting
- Modernising the business of the bar, a clerk’s perspective
- MPs urge the Government to end delay on protections for cohabiting partners
- Neurodiversity and Mental Health
- Neurodiversity: Why we need different brains at the bar.
- New data on wellbeing at the Bar
- New IBA report provides first-of-its-kind global perspective on cybersecurity risk governance
- New legislation providing additional rights for carers, expecting parents and new parents
- Nightmare on St Aldgates (have we learnt nothing from Jackson?
- Non-Competes: The UK v US approach
- Post-Brexit mutual free movement of people for UK & EU is becoming ‘critical’
- Preventing Digital Exclusion from Online Justice
- Private prosecutions: The quiet battle against illegal streaming
- Public Sector Fraud – A Way Forward?
- Quincecare[1] duty does not require banks to second-guess customers’ clear instructions: Fiona Philipp v Barclays Bank UK PLC [2023] UKSC 25
- Raab resignation: This has to be a fresh start for the justice system
- Raising the Bar for Working Parents
- Re-thinking litigation workflows for the 21st century
- Recent High Court guidance on Fundamental Dishonesty
- Reconsidering how we talk about legal professional privilege
- Religious observances and festivals – what are my employers’ obligations?
- Remote justice: Some thoughts on the future of hearings in courts and tribunals in an increasingly virtual world
- Reporting in Family Courts
- Routes and Obstacles to Obtaining British Citizenship for Children
- Rushed migration Bill runs counter to the rule of law, says the Bar Council
- s.48(a) MCA 2005: should a 25% likelihood of incapacity suffice to make interim orders?
- Senior judicial roles open up to CILEX Lawyers as new legislation comes into force
- Serle Court to host Chambers Event at Lord’s celebrating Jewish cricket community
- Slow and steady wins the race: content marketing for barristers
- Slow steps of progress on widening access to legal aid – Bar Council
- Social Media Raising the Bar
- Solicitor acting in CFA owes same duties to client as solicitor in privately funded case
- Solicitors unconvinced about government’s ABI strategy
- Statement from Working Families on the Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill Receiving Royal Assent
- Taking the right decisions: how the Bar Standards Board builds checks and balances into its enforcement work?
- The Advantages and Limitations when using the services of a paralegal
- The Artificial Revolution
- The Bar Standards Board appoints Fieldfisher to review its enforcement system
- The Bar Standards Board issues a consultation on proposed amendments to widen its powers to protect the public
- The Bar Standards Board issues a consultation on the regulation of barristers in chambers
- The Bar Standards Board publishes its 2022/23 Annual Report into Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing
- The Bar Standards Board publishes its 2023-2024 Business Plan
- The Bar Standards Board publishes our 2024-2025 Business Plan
- The Bar Standards Board reappoints Capsticks to provide external legal support for its regulatory decision-making
- The Challenge of Emerging Technologies and Data Protection
- The collapse of FTX – the epitome of corporate failure
- The court’s approach to key defences in the Defamation Act 2013
- The Fragility of Civil Legal Aid
- The Human Rights Act 1998 and the IPT’s attempt to strike a satisfactory balance between national security and human rights through the Liberty v GCHQ case).
- The impact of the Financial Crisis on Divorce
- The Importance of Pursuing Mediation before Starting Legal Proceedings
- The international law elephant in the unilateral sanctions room.
- The International Law Framework – Establishing Violence Against Women and Girls as a Human Rights Abuse
- The Legal Limbo of Cohabitants: Time for Reform?
- The Power of Patterns in Forensics
- The promise of an inheritance: is it enforceable?
- The Public Order Bill: a lesson in legislative irony
- The reversal of the presumption of innocence in compensation claims for those wrongly convicted: the case of MALKINSON casts a spotlight
- The Rise of the Digital Mercenaries
- The road to cognition: Using generative AI in legal practice
- The role of AI in the legal profession
- The role of AI in the legal profession
- The role of machine translation in the legal sector
- The Russian invasion of Ukraine: a year on.
- The Secret of Good Advocacy: Show Don’t Tell
- The Spire Foundation beginnings
- The state of Protest
- The use of experts in private children law family disputes involving allegations of parental alienation
- Three things I wish I had known before joining the Commercial Bar
- To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny, or delay right or justice’
- Top financial crime lawyer says Farage comments on money laundering laws raise important point
- Two Kings Chambers barristers named as King’s Counsel
- UK Fraud Levels
- Unlawful killing following Maughan – new guidance issued by the Chief Coroner
- Use of the Beth Din as a Forum for Determining Civil Disputes
- We are All Trudi Warner! Promoting the Rights of Jurors in the Twenty First Century
- What Black History Month Means to Me
- What it takes to progress from bottom to top…an insight into careers at the Criminal Bar
- What to expect from a compelled interview
- What went Wrong?
- When is Without Prejudice really Without Prejudice?
- Where did Part 35 go?
- Why isn’t mediation used more often in regulatory and public law cases?
- Why should the Bar care about remote working?
- Why the legal sector needs to invest in accessibility
- Will a new failure to prevent fraud offence address the UK’s most commonly committed criminal offence?
- Will Waldron KC appointed as Head of Exchange Chambers
- Wills: Why it’s important to get your affairs in order
- Witch trials and children’s evidence in Seventeenth-Century England
- With great respect, that is a bad legal argument: ‘respect’, courtesy or insult?
- Youth Remand and the impact of the PCSC Act 2022